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2 posted on
01/15/2026 12:14:23 PM PST by
MtnClimber
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3 posted on
01/15/2026 12:15:12 PM PST by
MtnClimber
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I love looking at the Moon…
5 posted on
01/15/2026 12:17:47 PM PST by
telescope115
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To: MtnClimber
Not long ago while crater hopping on lunar surface, I noted the extensive shadows from the mountains surrounding Plato's crater rim, being cast across the crater floor as seen on the left side of this image. Some of those peaks are in excess of 7,000 ft elevation.
For size reference, the LA area would basically fit insider the crater. I'd guess those shadows are about 30 miles long.
8 posted on
01/15/2026 1:01:35 PM PST by
dragnet2
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To: MtnClimber
9 posted on
01/15/2026 1:06:38 PM PST by
Diogenesis
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To: MtnClimber
What’s kind of interesting, looking at Tycho, I think it is in the southern extreme through a telescope observers have seen jagged features due to the extreme angles of the sunlight for hundreds of years. It’s sort of an optical illusion.
Before the unmanned and manned missions got up close and personal artist depictions and Sci-fi movies and such always showed the Moon landscape innaccurately, it’s mostly rounded and smooth, not stalagmites and stalagtite features.
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12 posted on
01/15/2026 2:56:15 PM PST by
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